Labor Day Weekend

With the summer coming to an end Dem and I finally made it up north to my parents place for a long weekend. On our way back we finally remembered that we did actually visit Pigeon this summer on Mother's Day, but it was just for a couple hours. Dem had Friday and Monday off of work so we drove up there Thursday evening after we helped our friend do some light moving.

It was a really nice weekend seeing my parents plus extended family. We had a BBQ, two nights of campfires, Dairy Queen, watched some really nice sunsets, got two runs in, and played a bunch of wii. I think my mom is hooked on wii and will be getting one down the road...once she heals up from the wii-injury. Here are some pics and video to recap some of the very fun weekend.

The highlight of the weekend...Dem and dad wii boxing.

Here is Dem and I being sad after there was an accident that resulted in me getting a chunk of my nose removed (see the blood at the end)...its healing nicely.

A nice picture of Dem out on the breakwall in Caseville when the sun was setting.

We finally took some pictures of the wind mills that are all over the place up by Pigeon now.

Closer picture of the wind mills....they are even larger then they look in the picture.

Then it was time to drive back home.

wii Friends

I've now had my wii for a few weeks and am still loving it. One of the fun things to do is work on your "mii" and create miies (that is how I'm going to pluralize that word) of family and friends. For those that have never heard of a "mii", they are basically cartoon version of people. Dem, Mike, Karen, and I have combined to give a good grouping of miies on my system. Picture below are all of our miies hanging out in "mii plaza". There is another place were there is a mii parade, which consists of miies from our friend's systems visiting our system. It's pretty cool.

miies of our family, friends, and Daria.

Some people are difficult and I don't think I've captured them very well yet, but for the most part I think looking at the miies one could guess who they are suppose to be. Below is my family in mii form.

The Elbings

And it won't be a post without the traditional Dem and Brian picture...

Dem and I...dang my eyes were closed.

I was actually taking these pictures of all the miies and right when I took my picture my eyes closed...this wasn't planned...I don't know why suddenly I can't keep my eyes open during pictures. Anywho, the final thing to include on my wii post is that Dem and I have been doing the wii fitness age thing on wii sports (not to be confused with wii fit). Basically once a day each mii can do three training activities and based on your performance it gives you an age. Last week, I think, Dem managed to get an age of 21, which is really great (her first age was like 72 or something). We snapped a photo to capture the moment...until two nights ago that was the youngest age either us had gotten. I managed to get 20 years, which I'm pretty proud of, but no picture for proof.

Dem's fitness age

The Weekend

Highlights...

Friday

1) Dem and I ate at Zingerman's Roadhouse for the first time...great food. I had this mac & cheese dish that had chicken, corn, and cilantro in it, and Dem had a beef brisket thing with mash potatoes and green bean casserole.

2) Dem and I saw Wall-E. It was great and I won't be surprised if we saw it again.

3) Watched more of Arrested Development...such a good show.

Saturday

4) Went for a long run...first run of the year without Dem and it probably the worst run I've had all year...I guess I should just run with Dem.

5) Basically just had a day off.

Sunday

6) Went to church

7) Bought a wii!!! Yeah, Karen was talking about how awesome her and mike's wii is and before I knew it I was the proud owner of my very own one. Typically if I make a sudden purchase like that I have buyers remorse...not really with this one. It's awesome.

8) Visited my buddy Joe since he was up here in Michigan. Dem and I went and it was pretty fun.

9) Drove back to Ann Arbor and played wii with Dem before taking her home to end the weekend.